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...weeks Walter Mondale had predicted with facetious precision that he would acquire the magic number of 1,967 delegates needed to pin down the Democratic presidential nomination at 11:59 a.m. on the day after Super Tuesday III???the final day of one of the most grueling, frenetic and unpredictable primary seasons ever. Now on election eve Mondale's campaign plane was over California, nearing the end of a 25-hour, 5,620-mile coast-to-coast blitz. The candidate had been in fine fettle, rousing partisan audiences in New Jersey, West Virginia and New Mexico. He seemed somehow...
...protected not only by Israeli troops but by highly sophisticated electronic systems and radar screens that operate around the clock. All aircraft?including Israeli military planes?are barred from flying over the areas where the nuclear plants are located. During the Six-Day War, in fact, an Israeli Mirage III???either out of control or with its communications gear in operative?inadvertently flew over Dimona. Israeli defenders shot it down with a ground-to-air missile. In 1973 a Libyan airliner flying from Benghazi to Cairo lost its way because of a navigational error and flew toward a forbidden area...
...still spiraled. In August 1971, when prices were rising at a 5% annual rate, Nixon suddenly imposed a wage-price freeze followed by the fairly effective controls of Phase II. By January 1973 the inflation rate had come down to about 3%, and Nixon lifted the controls during Phase III???just when restrictions on farm output and Government stimulation of the economy during election year 1972 were dangerously elevating inflationary pressures...
...supplied some of the cash for The Rainbow Room's glass walls, color organ and two-speed reversible, revolving dance floor. At a table in an alcove farthest from the dance floor, Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller and their guests ? Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III???were half way through the club's $15 dinner before the other frolickers started to arrive. Most night-club entrepreneurs are bored by their own productions. Said John D. Rockefeller Jr.: "You don't know how glad I was to be able to get a reservation...
While Il Duce was embracing and triumphing at Rome, last week, there was left to King Vittorio Emanuele III???who has just returned from a state visit to Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?merely the cold, staid duty of honoring at Turin the late Emanuele Filberto, Duke of Savoy, born in 1528. All that could pertinently be said about Duke Filberto was compressed into a trenchant oration by famed Senator Sem Benelli, author of The Jest, a grewsome play which Actor John Barrymore made a hit-show in the U. S. some years...